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President Trump , along with Congressional Republicans, are determined to pass a tax reform bill before the year ends. What this prospective bill will look like is still a mystery. The Senate is likely to. make major changes to what’s is now being called the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” …

Maloney to release letter requesting that NY’s Fearless Girl Statue remain in place until ERA is Ratified NEW YORK—On Friday, November 17th at 10:30am, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) will join with New York Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, the Girl Scouts of Greater NY and local elected officials at theFearless …

India and China are rivals, with disputes over borders, the Dalai Lama and matters of cultural and national pride. But the world’s largest democracy has found something to emulate in the world’s largest communist dictatorship: predatory trade practices. Americans usually associate India with outsourced call centers and IT workers who …

The results are in, and it doesn’t look good. Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the Fiscal Year 2017 budget deficit (fiscal years end on Sept. 30th). The final tally was an ominous $666 billion deficit – a shortfall that will add to our $20 trillion …

This week both houses of Congress are observing Veterans’ Day. That means they are taking Friday off. It also means that they are using this week to load the legislative calendar with much-needed bills related to veterans’ affairs. The House has already passed a number of these bills, including the …

Via Truthout Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 30 that the Trump administration has all the legal authority it needs to kill people anywhere in the world. But just in case Congress wishes to update its old Authorization …

Via Truthout During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump advocated killing innocent families of suspected terrorists. “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he declared. Besides the immorality of killing innocents, the targeting of civilians violates the Geneva Conventions. The George W. Bush administration unlawfully …

In October, the Trump administration issued a rule to allow employers, insurance companies, and universities to deny coverage of contraception to their employees. This denial of coverage will surely change the lives of 64 million women who were able to access affordable birth control thanks to an Obama-era rule, and …

Good Morning. Urgent alert. Read the Health Care bill and use BillCam to tweet the bill sponsors and your rep — they vote on Wednesday. Scott Wells read the bill and found that — oops, the Federal Government exempted its own employees from the costs of health care under this …

If you do or don’t love the proposed Republican health care bill — tweet the bill and your comment about it to its sponsor. @RepDianeBlack is the sponsor. Also: @votedianeblack And: @GovDianeBlack She says of herself: “I am Diane Black, a real person and definitely not Donald Trump with a …

WHAT IS IT? The Graham-Cassidy Amendment to the American Health Care Act of 2017 (HR-1628) WHO SPONSORED IT? Amendment Sponsors: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Bill Sponsor: Sen. Diane Black (R-TN) Released: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 WHAT DOES …

We have READ the health care bill proposed by the Republicans, due to be voted on this week. Did you know that the Republican health care bill that they want to pass this week, the Graham Cassidy amandment to change Obamacare, would let states get rid of the obligation for …

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio gestures to the crowd while delivering a speech on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: John Moore / Getty Images) Via Truthout When Donald Trump plunged a dagger through the …

Here’s the legislative calendar for the week of Monday, September 11, 2017- including a special MONSTER BILL ALERT! H.R. 3219 is “12 BILLS IN ONE”: $1.57 BILLION TO BUILD A SOUTHERN BORDER WALL; $3.1 BILLION TO ISRAEL; CUTS TO FOOD FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN; FEDERAL DEFUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD; 354 …

The United States is supposed to be a country in which free speech is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. But is it really — on American college campuses? Colleges and Universities are supposed to be places that prepare millennials for the future. But many of them have …

Recently, there has been a lot of debate on the influx of immigrants into the country. Additionally, there has been a significant backlog on green cards — citizens of some countries like China and India may have to wait decades to gain employment and citizenship status in America. The Fairness …